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Integrating developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, this book offers a balanced view of project financing by combining legal, contractual, scheduling, and other subjects. Its emphasis on concepts and techniques makes it critical for those who want to succeed in financing large projects.

Suitable for students in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering, this title provides a theoretical approach to dynamical systems and chaos. It helps them to analyze the types of differential equations that arise in their area of study.

Provides the knowledge necessary to uncover and use digital evidence effectively in any kind of investigation. This title teaches how computer networks function, how they can be involved in crimes, and how they can be used as a source of evidence. It includes chapters dedicated to networked Windows, and Unix, and Macintosh computers.

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design, 2nd edition, gives a jump start to engineers developing O-RAN hardware and software systems, providing a top-down approach to O-RAN systems design from an author with a silicon, software, and system background. It gives an introduction into why wireless systems look the way they do today before introducing relevant O-RAN and 3GPP standards. The remainder of the book discusses hardware and software aspects of O-RAN system design, including dimensioning and performance targets, and some practical use case examples that include 5G advanced topics. This edition includes comprehensive updates in key areas such as postquantum security and radio unit design. Additionally, it addresses emerging 5G advanced topics, including Industrial & URLLC, nonterrestrial networking, the role of artificial intelligence, 5G reduced capabilities for IoT, and self-organizing networks.

Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts provides a deeper comprehension of the metaverse's revolutionary effects on patient care, medical education, and operational procedures in the healthcare sector. The book Includes both the fundamentals of patient experience, provider practices, and the overall framework of the healthcare business as the democratisation of medical education through virtual simulations and the individualised care enabled by AI-driven diagnostics. In 14 chapters "Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts" leads the reader to an introduction to, definition, elements, treatment and diagnostic in healthcare in metaverse, the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet. It describes the role of robots and give a view on the future scope and challenges. " Exploration of Healthcare in Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts" serves as a road map for technologists and policymakers influencing the direction of healthcare as well as a help book for medical practitioners integrating metaverse technologies into their practice.

Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems: Stabilization and Limit Cycle Generation clearly explains stabilization and limit cycle generation in underactuated mechanical systems (UMS), addressing control design challenges and demonstrating concepts through real-time experiments. The book begins with advancements in UMS, introducing key concepts such as stabilization and limit cycle generation, supported by literature examples. It then focuses on the inertia wheel inverted pendulum, presenting a detailed discussion. The second part tackles stabilization, offering various control solutions validated through numerical simulations and real-time experiments. The final part addresses stable limit cycle generation, detailing three proposed control solutions and their validation through different case studies. This book is a valuable resource for PhD and Master students, engineers, researchers, and educators. It provides guidance in robotics and automatic control, utilizing a simplified methodology for controlling underactuated mechanical systems.

An Overview of FDA Regulated Products: From Drugs and Cosmetics to Food and Tobacco, Second Edition is fully updated to reflect recent advances in science and technology and new laws and regulations. Breakthroughs in cellular and gene therapy, immunotherapy, precision medicine, and digital health are changing the face of healthcare and regulation. The updates brought about by the 21st Century Cures Act and subsequent PDUFA Reauthorizations, as well as signing into law the "Modernization of Cosmetic Regulation Act of 2022," which will transform FDA’s oversight of cosmetics, are fully reflected in all chapters of the book. This book provides graduate students and industry professionals with comprehensive information on approval processes with the FDA and other country regulation organizations. Regulatory science professionals working with not only drugs, but biologics, medical devices, food and additives, cosmetics, veterinary products, and tobacco will benefit from this comprehensive overview of the regulatory environment.

Cholecystokinin: From Gallbladder to Cognition and Beyond covers the biology, physiology and pathophysiological roles of cholecystokinin (CCK) peptides. It begins with a historical overview before providing in-depth chapters into the biology of CCK, from biogenesis to cell expression, including intestinal and extraintestinal endocrine cells, and the central and peripheral nervous system, and receptor function. CCK phylogenesis is explored across various species, including fish, birds, insects and amphibians. The physiology of CCK covers intestinal CCK secretion, the gallbladder and pancreas, and the role of CCK in the gut-brain axis, gastrointestinal motor function, appetite regulation, and cardiovascular function. Methods used for CCK research are also discussed. A number of chapters then cover the roles of CCK in various diseases, including metabolic diseases, tumors, psychiatric illness, the immune system and nociception, as well as potential therapeutic approaches targeting CCK receptors.Cholecystokinin: From Gallbladder to Cognition and Beyond is a volume in the Molecular Mediators in Health and Disease book series, and acts as a fundamental reference on all biological and clinical aspects of CCK. This book is ideal for researchers interested in learning more about the role of CCK and its impact across health and disease.